The relevance of Jack.

[flashpig]

Harold E. Edgerton. A photographer taking high speed photos of things which you might not see. He did that photo of milk dropping and forming a coronet, and the football being kicked and bending utterly out of shape. I'm sure you know of his pictures.

He also took a photo of a playing card being shot in two. It is called cutting the card quickly. But there are at least 2 versions of this photo. Both times the Jack, but of different suits, so it couldn't be to try to get a replica. Why the Jack?

[kempie]

Sorry, I do not know why "Jack of Hearts" (B+W, 1960) was 'repeated' using the Jack of Diamonds in "'Cutting the Card Quickly" (Colour, 1964) but here are the photos to jog some memories.

[flashpig]

Thank you for that link. I was thinking about him and "How to Make Applesauce at MIT" tonight (called bullet through apple here, which is the correct title?), and all I could find with the google image search was low quality rubbish.

Perhaps Jack has no relevance at all, but he did 2 versions of 'Milk drop coronet"...

[jno]

looks better as a court card, with a figure being bisected, than it would have looked with the 5 of hearts (or whatever). But I don't know why, precisely, the Jack.

[cuddlycat]

Maybe because shooting the king or a lady would be too controversial, so the jack is the easy victim. Just a guess...